Glossary Term – Organization

The National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869, worked for women’s rights; the NWSA wanted to achieve not only woman suffrage but changes to property laws, public health, and labor.

Glossary Term – Person

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was a founder of the woman suffrage movement. By the 1840s, Stanton was a well known proponent of women’s rights, working as a lecturer and helping to secure married women’s property rights in New York in 1848. That same year, she and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, where Stanton introduced her Declaration of Sentiments. In the early 1850s, Stanton began working with Susan B. Anthony on suffrage and women’s rights issues, a partnership that would continue for...